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ED identifies 30 Kolkata Police officers in land-grabbing case
The Enforcement Directorate has identified around 30 Kolkata Police officers of various ranks for alleged involvement in a land-grabbing racket linked to former Deputy Commissioner Shantanu Sinha Biswas, gangster Biswajit Poddar alias…
The Story in Brief
The Enforcement Directorate has identified around 30 Kolkata Police officers of various ranks for alleged involvement in a land-grabbing racket linked to former Deputy Commissioner Shantanu Sinha Biswas, gangster Biswajit Poddar alias Sona Pappu, and businessman Joy Kamdar. According to Millennium Post, the officers followed Biswas’s instructions to intimidate landowners into selling their plots at nominal prices.
ED raids on Constable Ruhul Amin’s home and Biswas’s ancestral residence in Murshidabad yielded about two kg of gold worth Rs 3 crore, cash, and incriminating documents. Investigators are questioning Biswas to map the full network within the city police.
The Indian Opinion
The ED’s widening net in Kolkata’s land-grabbing case should worry any citizen who expects the police to protect property rights, not extort them. The lazy narrative that this is just another political vendetta misses the point: two kg of gold seized from a former police DC’s ancestral home speaks to systemic rot, not selective targeting. The real test is whether the ED names every officer on its list and pursues the buyers who profited from the forced sales. Without convictions, the nexus simply goes dormant till the next round of land deals.
Source: millenniumpost.in
This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above.
